{"id":777,"date":"2008-02-03T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2008\/02\/03\/mormons-cancel-church\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T20:41:33","slug":"mormons-cancel-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Mormons cancel church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We awoke to about a foot of new snow outside (have I mentioned that I&#8217;m tired of winter already?  Well, I AM!), and later got a phone call that church had been canceled for today.  Wow!  I only remember church being canceled one other time, and that was when we were newly married and living in Provo.  I think we actually went to church and there was nobody there.  This time we must be more loved, because we got about 4 phone calls to let us know that there would be no church.  So we can shovel out.  Our snowblower died an early death this year, so we have been at the mercy of our neighbors to help us clear our many feet of snow this winter.  Thankfully, our neighbor to the north has a four wheeler with a plow, and he frequently plows our driveway, and our neighbor to the south just bought himself a new snowblower, and he&#8217;s cleared our front walk a few times.  I doubt we&#8217;ll be that lucky today.  Ugh.  We&#8217;ll wait for the snowplows to come and stay safely inside.<\/p>\n<p>For our &#8220;church&#8221;, we&#8217;ve stayed in and watched the rebroadcast of President Hinckley&#8217;s funeral.  It was a beautiful funeral and there have been many wonderful tribute programs on this past week.  It&#8217;s a nice substitute for church.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we went to see the Blue Man Group.  It was GREAT!  Although this isn&#8217;t video from this exact concert, we saw something like this<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/So5eEjwjLLM&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/So5eEjwjLLM&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Although the band that was with them was good, I thought they drowned out the percussion of the Blue Man Group, and wished there was less band and less singing.  It was a fun date for us, and I&#8217;d pay that much for tickets again anytime!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we celebrated Jenna&#8217;s birthday.  It was a fun little party, even though only 3 of her friends came.  I guess we should have invited more than 8 people.  It was a fairy party, and we had wings for all the girls (and the boy) who came.  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00080_G.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  We made butterflies,  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00084_G.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>, had a treasure hunt, and even painted fairy fingernails and toenails. <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00089_G.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  I had a few games planned that we didn&#8217;t do because there were only a few kids, but we watched Fairytopia and had the ever popular whacking of the pinata. <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00118_G.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  And with pinatas being the cheap things that they are, the handle quickly broke off, and we had to call in the pinata repair man to rig up the pinata. <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00115_G.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had the idea to make a forest of toadstools for the cake.  I seem to always overestimate my abilities when it comes to cake decorating, and this was no exception.  What began as &#8220;good idea&#8221; quickly turned frustrating, but I just went with it.  It&#8217;s a good think I was going for the mushroomy look, because the little toadstools were less than pretty.  Jenna did all the decorations on the top with &#8220;fairy dust&#8221; and she thought they were pretty, so I guess it was a success.  Once we put on the fairies, I thought it actually looked cute.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00076_G.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400\" alt=\"cake\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00099_G.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=400\"alt=\"jenna's cake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the fairies close up.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-02-02\/00091_G.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=350\"alt=\"fairy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The girls got to take their fairies home, along with lots of candy from the pinata.  I&#8217;m glad that it turned out well, and Jenna had a fun party.  And I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s a weekend update for you.  I hope that wherever you are, you are warm and dry inside.  And could we please stop it with the snowing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We awoke to about a foot of new snow outside (have I mentioned that I&#8217;m tired of winter already? Well, I AM!), and later got a phone call that church had been canceled for today. Wow! 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